eBooks
Stay tuned! These classic, best-selling books with a gently distinctive Christian angle have been updated and repackaged to engage, entertain, and speak to the heart of today's tweens and teens. Formatted for Kindle, Nook, & Nook for Kids.
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"It's refreshing to read a book that doesn't talk down to teens or portray a teen's capacity for emotion and comprehension at a lower level than an adult's. Quinn's relationship with her brother Tucker is touching, as is her desire to help each member of her family experience happiness. Red Velvet is a superb book that will make you laugh, cry, and hold on to your friends and family a little tighter."
Red Velvet
Book Loons Review
"Sandra Byrd has written an honest story about the implications of making your faith your own that young people will readily identify with... I am especially thankful for this book because there is relatively little material about Messianic Jewish believers that is written with skill and care and is culturally authentic. This story admirably will help begin to fill that gap..." -
Daisy Chains
Janie-sue Wertheim,
Jews for Jesus
"This book is excellent. The girls are real, and their conflicts engage the heart. A laugh-out-loud, cry-out- loud, cheer-out-loud book."
Chopsticks
Romantic Times,
4 1/2 star review
"The Hidden Diary Series introduces Lucy, whose adventures are sure to become popular summertime reading for middle grade girls. Revolving around the theme of best friends and a secret diary, this book has definite girl appeal as Byrd demonstrates her uncanny ability of writing from the heart of an almost 12-year old."
Hidden Diary Series
CBA Marketplace Review
"Byrd's debut moves along at a swift pace, spurring young readers on... in Tess she has created a truly likable protagonist who has her share of every day worries but is learning to face them with more and more confidence."
Secret Sisters Series
Publisher's Weekly
"Written in a warm Dear Abby style, this book avoids preachiness and shares solid, biblical advice at the same time."
Girls Like You
Media Spot
"a fantastic novel for young teen girls... a story of friends, family, and faith... a warm, wholesome story."
Friends for a Season
Romance Junkies
"...the wisdom isn't just skin deep. Byrd challenges young women to lead godly lives. Highly recommended."
CBA Marketplace
"...sure to become popular summertime reading for middle-grade girls. Byrd demonstrates her uncanny ability of writing from the heart of an almost-12-year-old."
CBA Marketplace
"...a promising series from a proven author. Kids will love reading about the adventures of these believable characters."
Church Libraries
"Byrd's debut moves along at a swift pace, spurring young readers on through Tess's real-life problems at home and at school. In Tess, she has created a truly likable protagonist who has her share of everyday worries but is learning to face them with more and more confidence. While Byrd focuses on her character's moral dilemmas, she mentions God and prayer judiciously, making this title accessible to a wider audience."
Secret Sisters
Publisher's Weekly
"Young teen girls will find this gentle story (Island Girl) engrossing and reassuring as they discover aspects of themselves in young Meg."
CBA Marketplace
"This book (Chopstick) is excellent. The girls are real, and their conflicts engage the heart. A laugh-out-loud, cry-out- loud, cheer-out-loud book.
Romantic Times
Four and a Half Stars
Friends for a Season
Ages 11-14
Chopsticks
Chopsticks
Paige Winsome has always been in the shadow of her athletic brother and academic sister, and, as a result, feels her musical abilities are overlooked. Kate Kennedy receives plenty of praise for her voice, but her family struggles to make ends meet and must always accept others' charity. The two meet and become fast friends when they find out they have each entered into a music contest that will bring one of them, but only one of them, everything she's dreamed of. Will their friendship survive?
Daisy
Chains
Daisy Chains
Kylie Peterson and Rachel Cohen become fast friends when both are invited to help out with a wedding. Kylie's cousin Jed is marrying Rachel's cousin Davina. But of more interest to the girls is the fact that the bride's family is Jewish and the groom is not. This difference in religion leads both girls to explore their own beliefs. Kylie figures she was born a Christian, but starts to question that assumption. Rachel wonders - did Davina stop being Jewish when she became a Messianic believer?
Red Velvet
Red Velvet
Quinn Miller and her family are heading to Seattle for a stay at Anderson House - a home away from home for cancer patients and their families. When Quinn reads her mother's teen-years diary, she comes across a list of things her mom has wanted to do before she dies. But an item not on the list becomes even more important - a red velvet dress her mother has wanted since childhood. Quinn wants to help her mom accomplish all of these things, but will doing so be like giving her mother permission to die?
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Volume 6
Secret Sisters
Ages 8-12
Secret Sisters: (se'-krit sis'-terz) n. Two friends who choose each other to be everything a real sister should be: loyal and loving. They share with and help each other no matter what!
Each of the six volumes in this exciting series for girls aged 8-12 contains two complete books. Come along with Tess and Erin and they visit a dude ranch, spend time at the beach, sign up for modeling school and have the surprise of a lifetime at an Indian reservation.
Each volume includes everything tweens want in a book: fun, friends, family, faith and a fast-pace. Go ahead - give them a try! Click links to download a sample read from any volume.
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Hidden Diary
Ages 8-12
Lucy is dreading another summer on the island away from her friends while her father works on his research project. Then she stumbles upon a letter from 1932 that gives mysterious clues about a hidden diary and how to find it. Along the way Lucy finds trouble, adventure, excitement, and a new best friend.
In four, action packed, heart-touching volumes, Lucy and Serena track down the clues offered in an old diary. When they challenge one another to a diary dare, the risks and rewards only get bigger.
Each volume includes everything tweens want in a book: fun, friends, family, faith and a fast-pace. Go ahead - give them a try! Click links to download a sample read from any volume.
